[Issue 1856] Outstanding template issues

[Don Clugston]

d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1856
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> ------- Comment #3 from wbaxter at gmail.com  2008-02-26 12:51 -------
> I just noticed that function-vs-template overloading was one of the items
> mentioned in WalterAndrei.pdf.
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> However, there it says "the function is not preferred over the template" so
> that means this would be an error?
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>   void foo(int i);
>   void foo(T)(T i);
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> That doesn't seem so good.  Why not treat functions like specializations?

I think that's the idea. In C, when there's a function and a template, the 
compiler ALWAYS chooses the function. No matter how inappropriate the function is.